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Hello.

I was dreading this week when Amazon told me it had over ELEVEN HUNDRED LISTINGS for the week of 12/16, but then I found out that over eight hundred of them were unavaible Blu-ray listings and things got considerably brighter. (I STILL don't know what's up with that - just making sure they have the listings in the system by the end of the year or something?)

When it all shook out, we ended up with the list of 257 DVDs, 41 Blu-rays and one UMD and you'll see all 299 here. Well...down there.

A big proportion of "big" releases this week, HOWEVER. Things always get weird when we get around Christmas - releases are moved up to avoid the day, and I think a lot of that has happened here. Be sure to pay close attention to the "big movies" section because a good chunk of them won't actually be out on Tuesday...but they WILL be out before NEXT Tuesday - presumably to give you a little better chance to pick 'em up before Christmas proper.

As always, everything IS out on Tuesday except where a different date is specified.

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Other links are hopefully more self-explanatory than ever.

This year's almost in the can! LET'S GO

Raise your hand if you were sure that I would make an obvious

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 6 (The W at Amazon) (Adult Swim, 2008-9) Thirteen episodes - technically season 5, but Adult Swim hasn't even aired four of them yet! I hope there's more "soundtrack" extras like the previous releases have had

BIG MOVIES OF THE WEEK

Universal takes the cake - it didn't hurt that they actually had Tuesday releases in their list...

The Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Show (2008) Animated - voices of Jamie Lynn Spears, Brooke Shields, Tom Arnold - I'm sure Jim Henson would be delighted his name's on the box if he still cared, but we all know he's in a better place now.

MOVIE FOR KIM OF THE WEEKThe Day the Earth Stopped (2008) Yes, it's EXACTLY what you think it is - a ripoff of a more famous film in theatres starring Keanu Reeve - but here's the BEST part - DIRECTED BY AND STARRING C. THOMAS HOWELL. YES. C. THOMAS HOWELL. Second billing given to - YES - JUDD NELSON. NOW how much would you expect to pay? Learn more about this soon to be surefire classic release and don't miss that trailer! at the always on The Asylum (theasylum.cc)

INTERNET SENSATION OF THE WEEKDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Amazon.com Exclusive) (Internet, 2008) From the mind of Joss Whedon - Neil Patrick Harris stars. A very excited thread about this show has previously been posted here (The W). I still haven't bothered. Cubs just called me "old" again. (12/19)

Malta Story (UK, 1953) Dodgy "import" release from Asia via the UK through CastawayMan in the Moon (UK, 1960) e'Lollipop (Forever Young, Forever Free - South Africa, 1976) Televista quasi-legal releaseLos Angeles (The Price of Air, 2000) Michael Madsen, Dick van Patten, Josh Evans (also directs), Charis Michelsen, Sticky Fingaz, Goldie - you know, slapping a new title on an eight year old movie will ALWAYS get people to buy it. Har har har. Fortunately for me, the description of "Los Angeles" at Westlake (westlakeent.com) still had the original title buried in it.

The worst Texas accent in history is optional. But the I-am-cute-if-I-uptalk-and-seem-afraid-of-a-single-declarative-sentence-at-all is not. Neither is robotically pan-and-scanning the dramatic circumstance and only reacting when a camera(?) is (uh?)